Ayhan SAYER

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Pittsburgh, PA, 15236 ab8tad@r.postjobfree.com

Summary: Process and foundry engineer with experience in heavy industry.

Innovative and creative with computer expertise and ability to

tackle difficult assignments by breaking them down to workable

projects.

Experience: BIRKAR LLC T/A PITTZARELLA. -Pittsburgh/PA 2005-

Present

Owner -Founder

. Held full planning, operating, accounting, purchasing, marketing,

advertising, and budgeting and H&R responsibilities.

. Responsible for all aspect of in-store employment (hiring,

training, coaching and termination) and coordinate with managers

and employees in scheduling all shifts, optimizing time space and

instructional needs of employees.

. Award Winnings from Trib Total Media "2011 Bronze awards Best

Pizza shop at South, 2011 Best Pizza shop in Bethel Park, 2012

Best hoagies in Bethel Park."

. Grew business from 50% margins after second year.

. Improved management/labor and reduced employee turnover rate by

110%

SAYER WELDING & MACHINERY Ltd. -Turkey 1992-2004

Member of the Board of Directors

. Investigated the new developments and technologies in welding and

structural construction fields for the family business; attended

national and international welding, construction and manufacturing

expositions and, networked for the expansion of Company's

distributor and supplier base.

. Coordinated new projects and prepared the work assignment

structure. Wrote the technical specifications for the acquisition

of major used equipment and supervised the budget and cost control

activities.

. Supervised the Company's product development as well as the

development of out sourced components to lower the over-all cost.

DEMISAS A.S. IRON CASTING -Turkey 2000-2001

Process and Foundry Supervisor

. Performed process and foundry engineering duties for casting and

foundry cells that included data collection and statistical

analysis using SPC. Primary job duties included the development

of time/temperature models for the foundry and casting operations,

data collection and analysis for day-to-day problems inside the

shop.

. Increased the productivity and profitability of the company by

optimizing the tap temperatures for a 10 t/hr hot blast cupola, a

18 t/hr electric holding furnace and two 1.5 t/hr induction

furnaces based on the burden chemistry and pig iron content thus

enabling the use of more scrap.

. Supervised the melt shop operations and the inspection of molding,

castings.

. Worked with the Quality Engineering Department to resolve

technical issues.

Foundry Foreman 1993-1996

Managed Molding is carried out by two DISAMATIC Molding Lines with

automatic stream inoculation and induction heated pouring furnace

equipped with laser pour unit. As managed molding goes on,

periodical tests are carried out by means of various techniques

such as thermal and spectral analysis, ensuring all conditions met

highest quality standards.

. Managed 25 employees in the melting, foundry, molding and casting

departments.

. Worked on the hot blast cupola, holding and induction furnaces.

Work on material testing processes such as mechanical testing,

metallographic examination and spectral and chemical analysis spouse

to under procedure.

. Worked with quality control department sac as metallographic

sample preparations and microstructure analysis, grain size

measurement and cleanliness evaluation.

. Work with the "DISA 2013" work process of sand calibration in the

laboratory as a tim. Managed on testing laboratory sand rammers,

compression, flow ability, mold ability, moisture, AFS sieve,

active and dead clay determination analysis.

Education: Master of Science in Engineering Management

June-2004

Robert Morris University, Pittsburgh, PA

Bachelor Science in Metallurgical Engineering

June-2000

Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey

Junior College in Casting Program June-

1993

Anatolia University, Bilecik, Turkey

Projects: ISO 9000 Foundry Procedure Preparation for Umit Casting Inc.

Marketing Strategies for Ford Taurus.

Cost Estimation of Demisas A.S.

Project Management at Relocation at Hussey Copper Corp.

Database Increased for Sayer Welding-Machinery Ltd.

Skills: Testing: Hardness, Tensile, Fatigue

Microscopy: Optical microscopy, digital image analysis, sample

preparation, result interpretation

Thermal Processing: Heat-treating of Ferrous and Nonferrous Alloys,

Metal Foundry, Casting, Welding (ARC, MIG, TIG)

Experimental: Design of Experiment

Computer: Microsoft (Word, Excel, Power Point, Access, Project

Management,), Image Pro-Plus 4.5 with materials Pro-Analyzer.

Professional

Members: ASM International

AWS, American Welding Society

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